Turkey History

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Historical Events
1071-08-26 - Battle of Manzikert, Byzantine Armenia (modern Malazgirt, Turkey). Fought between Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks.
1098-06-03 - After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
1371-09-26 - Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey
1402-06-20 - Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1453-04-21 - Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1499-08-25 - Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
1516-10-28 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
1520-09-30 - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey
1521-08-28 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1521-09-28 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1521-09-29 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1522-12-25 - Turkish troops occupy Rhodos
1534-06-12 - Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
1534-08-20 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1534-12-04 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1536-02-18 - France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel
1538-09-28 - Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish
1540-05-04 - Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1540-07-23 - Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary
1540-10-02 - Venice/Turkey signs peace
1541-08-26 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
1542-08-28 - Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1543-08-05 - French & Turkish troops occupy Nice
1543-09-06 - French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1544-05-01 - Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1547-06-13 - King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1551-08-14 - Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli
1560-07-29 - Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1565-09-08 - Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John
1571-05-20 - Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
1571-10-07 - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
1573-03-07 - Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1574-09-13 - Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
1606-11-11 - Turkey & Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok
1620-05-17 - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1621-06-19 - Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece
1621-10-09 - Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
1654-05-13 - Venetian fleet under Adm Adeler beats Turkish
1663-09-25 - Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to Turkish invasion army
1664-01-21 - Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1664-05-14 - Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
1664-08-10 - Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vásvár
1672-10-18 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
1676-10-27 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
1676-11-03 - Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1683-03-31 - Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1683-07-16 - Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
1683-09-03 - Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1687-08-12 - Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
1690-10-08 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1697-09-11 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power
1699-01-26 - Venice, Poland & Austria sign Treaty of Carlowitz with Ottoman Empire
1700-07-13 - Russian-Turkish peace
1700-11-30 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1703-08-21 - Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II
1713-07-27 - Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1714-11-22 - King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1718-08-21 - Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty
1724-06-23 - Russia & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1730-09-17 - Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
1737-07-18 - Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
1738-05-27 - Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
1738-08-02 - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
1739-09-18 - Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1739-09-23 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade
1739-10-03 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1770-07-06 - Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1774-07-21 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
1775-05-07 - Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1784-01-06 - Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1787-08-10 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1790-12-22 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1792-01-09 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1800-03-20 - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
1808-07-28 - Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
1821-03-25 - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1826-04-10 - The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1826-06-10 - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
1828-04-26 - Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1829-09-14 - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
1831-03-29 - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
1833-07-08 - Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty
1839-07-01 - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1839-11-03 - Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1856-02-29 - Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
1863-09-16 - Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1864-10-25 - Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL
1876-06-30 - Serbia declares war on Turkey
1876-07-03 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1876-12-23 - Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
1877-04-24 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1878-02-02 - Greece declares war on Turkey
1878-03-03 - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1878-06-04 - Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
1878-07-30 - Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1881-05-24 - Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
1883-10-04 - Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1887-03-24 - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
1890-09-19 - Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1897-04-05 - The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1897-05-12 - Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece
1897-05-15 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.
1899-12-23 - Tentative Turkish & German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway
1902-03-10 - Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1903-08-02 - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1906-05-03 - British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1908-09-22 - Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
1908-10-05 - Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
1908-10-07 - Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
1909-04-27 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
1911-02-06 - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
1911-09-29 - Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War
1911-11-05 - Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica
1912-03-05 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1912-05-04 - Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
1912-05-29 - 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
1912-09-15 - War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1912-10-08 - 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1912-10-08 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1912-10-17 - Bulgaria, Greece & Serbia declares war on Turkey
1912-10-18 - Italo-Turkish war ends
1912-10-19 - Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
1912-11-18 - Albania declares independence from Turkey
1912-11-28 - Albania declares it's Indepenence from Turkey
1912-12-03 - Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1913-01-18 - Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
1913-07-20 - Turkish troop take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria
1913-09-21 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
1914-03-14 - Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1914-08-02 - Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
1914-08-03 - Turkey signs military pact with Germany
1914-08-10 - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
1914-10-04 - Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
1914-10-29 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914-10-29 - Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1914-10-31 - Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey
1914-11-02 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914-11-04 - Russia declares Turkey the war
1914-11-05 - Great Britain & France & Russia declares war on Turkey
1914-12-17 - Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1915-01-04 - Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
1915-02-03 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1915-08-21 - Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One
1916-05-09 - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
1916-12-23 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
1917-03-28 - Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
1917-05-20 - Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa
1917-07-06 - T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
1917-08-17 - Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey
1918-02-21 - Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
1918-06-25 - Baku-Turkish communist party forms
1918-08-17 - Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
1919-05-19 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus.
1919-09-04 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
1920-04-23 - Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1920-04-23 - The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
1920-08-10 - Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey)
1920-08-10 - Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
1920-12-03 - Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
1921-01-03 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia
1921-01-20 - Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire
1921-08-24 - Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
1922-09-07 - In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
1922-09-09 - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens
1922-09-16 - Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
1922-10-11 - Turkey & Greece sign cease fire
1922-11-16 - Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help
1922-11-17 - Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship
1922-11-18 - Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
1923-07-24 - Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1923-08-13 - Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
1923-10-13 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
1923-10-29 - Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
1924-03-03 - German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
1924-08-16 - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
1925-01-30 - Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
1925-02-26 - Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government
1925-04-28 - Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army
1925-12-17 - Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
1925-12-26 - Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
1926-04-22 - Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security
1926-09-01 - Turkey allows civil marriage
1927-01-01 - Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
1927-02-16 - US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
1928-04-09 - Turkey passes separation of church & state
1928-11-03 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1929-01-31 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
1929-02-27 - Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
1929-03-06 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
1929-08-24 - Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
1929-12-06 - Turkey introduces female suffrage
1930-10-30 - Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
1931-05-04 - Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1934-02-09 - Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
1934-11-26 - Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
1935-01-01 - Pres Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"
1935-02-06 - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1936-07-10 - New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
1938-07-04 - France-Turkish friendship treaty
1939-04-18 - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey
1939-06-23 - France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey
1939-12-26 - Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
1939-12-27 - Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
1939-12-27 - Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die
1941-06-18 - Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany
1943-12-04 - -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres Inonu
1944-06-19 - Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
1944-08-02 - Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
1945-02-25 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947-05-22 - "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
1949-03-29 - Turkey recognizes Israel
1950-05-22 - Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
1950-06-06 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
1953-03-18 - Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
1955-02-18 - Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
1955-02-24 - Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
1955-11-29 - Turkish government of Menderes resigns
1955-12-08 - Turkish government of Menderes forms
1957-10-08 - Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1957-10-27 - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey
1958-06-07 - Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out
1959-02-19 - Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
1960-05-27 - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1962-06-25 - Inonu government forms in Turkey
1962-10-26 - Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected
1964-03-13 - Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1964-08-07 - Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots
1965-02-20 - Turkish government of Uerguplu forms
1965-07-21 - Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
1966-08-19 - Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
1966-12-07 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
1967-12-29 - Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
1969-10-17 - Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
1970-03-28 - 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
1970-10-15 - Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
1971-03-04 - "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
1971-03-12 - Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1971-04-26 - Turkey state of siege proclaimed
1973-09-26 - Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years)
1973-10-30 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
1974-01-25 - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1974-03-03 - World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1974-07-20 - Turkey invades Cyprus
1974-08-11 - Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
1974-08-14 - Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
1975-02-13 - Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation
1975-09-06 - 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1975-09-06 - Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed
1975-10-22 - Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
1975-10-24 - Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
1977-07-03 - Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off
1978-01-02 - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1980-09-12 - Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
1981-07-22 - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life
1982-03-24 - US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1982-11-07 - Turkey adopts constitution
1983-11-06 - Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
1983-11-15 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
1984-08-15 - The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
1986-04-05 - US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
1987-04-14 - Turkey asks to join European market
1988-06-15 - Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
1988-07-03 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
1989-10-31 - Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey
1990-08-27 - 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1992-03-03 - Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die
1992-03-13 - An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1993-01-24 - Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1993-05-16 - Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
1993-05-24 - Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey
1993-05-29 - Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
1993-06-14 - Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1993-07-02 - Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
1993-07-05 - Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villager in East Turkey
1994-07-26 - Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
1994-12-29 - B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
1997-03-18 - Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
1998-10-29 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1999-02-16 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
1999-02-23 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999-08-17 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
1999-11-12 - The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2000-06-13 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2000-12-19 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2003-02-10 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2003-11-20 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
2006-01-12 - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
2007-01-19 - Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
2007-04-14 - At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2007-04-29 - Republic Protests in Turkey.
2007-05-13 - Republic Protests in Turkey.
2009-10-10 - After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
2011-10-23 - A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2012-03-16 - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
2012-05-30 - A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre
2012-06-25 - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
2012-09-05 - 25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey
2012-09-06 - 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
2012-09-16 - 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey
2012-09-16 - 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
2012-09-18 - 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
2012-10-04 - Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
2012-11-10 - 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2012-12-15 - 18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey